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Axar Patel's outstanding No.3 display has sparked a T20 WC selection debate over Ravindra Jadeja. His exceptional batting skills, economy rate, and wicket-taking ability position him as a strong contender for the team. Both are left-arm spinners, both are gun fielders, and both can bat well. But in terms of T20 batting skills, one feels Axar is more equipped to play the big shots than Jadeja and bat in different gears as one saw on Wednesday.

Come 2027 and IndiGo will mount nonstop flights by using its own wide body aircraft between India and far flung corners of the world. The Rahul Bhatia-founded mega budget carrier Thursday said it "has agreed" to place a firm order for 30 twin aisle Airbus A350-900 valued at over $9.5 billion at list price, along with an option for 70 more of these big birds.

Shubman Gill shares insights on Titans captaincy, 'The Prince' label, cricket challenges, and handling pressure. He emphasizes team contribution, personal growth, evolving game strategies, and coping with selection pressure in the competitive cricket landscape. Gill has gone through half a season after taking charge of a new but successful IPL franchise, Gujarat Titans.

Axis Bank overtook Kotak Mahindra Bank on Thursday to become India's third most valued private lender after a rout in the latter's stock. Kotak Bank's stock opened deep in the red on Thursday a day after RBI restricted the lender from onboarding customers digitally and issuing credit cards, citing repeated failures to fix "serious deficiencies" in its IT system.

Reinforcing married women’s right over ‘streedhan’, Supreme Court on Wednesday held that streedhan cannot become joint property of a couple, and a husband has no control over his wife’s assets, which he may use during times of distress but must return to her. Adjudicating a matrimonial dispute over streedhan, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said a woman has absolute rights over her streedhan — gifts given to a woman before, during, or after marriage.

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Delhi HC listed for hearing on Friday a PIL that seeks disqualification of PM Narendra Modi from contesting elections for allegedly violating MCC during his campaign speech in UP’s Pilibhit on April 9. The petition, filed by advocate Anand S Jondhale last week, accuses Modi of seeking votes in the name of “god and place of worship”, and making references to “Hindu deities and Hindu place of worship as well as Sikh deities and Sikh place of worship”.

Attorney general R Venkataramani told SC on Thursday that govt would never adopt the Marxist egalitarian policy of ‘rob Peter to pay Paul’ in achieving the ideals of distributing community resources for the common good envisaged under Article 39(b) in Directive Principles of State Policy of the Constitution.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a key accused involved in last year’s violent attack on Indian high commission in London. The suspect — identified as Inderpal Singh Gaba, a resident of Hounslow in the United Kingdom — was arrested upon arrival in Delhi on the basis of a look-out circular issued against him earlier.

PM Modi on Thursday accused Congress of including Muslims as a whole in the OBC list in Karnataka “through the backdoor” and promoting reservation on religious lines in violation of the Constitution. He said when the Constitution was drafted, to protect the unity and integrity of the country, it was decided that there won’t be religion-based reservation. He said Congress’s decision to declare all Muslims in Karnataka as “backward”, on a par with OBCs, was inimical to the interests of backward classes.

A trial court in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh has attached the chair, furniture, computer and printer of the office of Sironj sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Harshal Chaudhary over non-compliance of its order to compensate farmers for land acquired by MP Road Development Corporation (MPRDC) around 13 years ago.

Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said the Rs 18,000-crore fund-raise has given Vodafone Idea a "fresh lease of life", and set the stage for a "smart turnaround". "Vi is not just a telecom company, it's a national asset with 215 million users and about 8,000 MHz spectrum," said Birla. Investors in Vodafone Idea made a 26% return within a week as the shares of the telecom services company, which were offered at Rs 11 apiece in an FPO, closed at Rs 13.9 on the BSE.